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Radhika Mamidi

Dr Radhika Mamidi is an Associate Professor at IIIT Hyderabad. She did her PhD in Linguistics from University of Hyderabad. She has 25 years of experience in language technologies labs and academic institutions. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed fora of Computational Linguistics and Linguistics. She is a regular reviewer for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, EACL conferences and IEEE, TALLIP journals. Her research areas are Dialogue Systems, Machine Translation, Sentiment Analysis and Computational Humour. Currently, she is a part of GOI funded Telugu Wikipedia project and has been a co-host of WikiMedia Foundation funded conferences like Wikipedia Conference India (WCI 2023), Wikipedia Technical Summit (WTS 2023) and Wiki Women Camp (WWC 2023). Contact

Praveen Das

Mr Praveen Das is a Lead Partnerships Manager, South Asia, Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). He has +13 years of experience in partnership building, community building, program management, user-based testing, and research. He is focused on expanding regional partnership work, assisting the organization's partnership needs, and providing more dedicated support to a diverse and fascinating landscape of opportunities. In his role at WMF, he pursues strategic opportunities to work with mission-aligned companies, nonprofit organizations, governments, and other groups operating at the intersection of technology and education to grow Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects and advance the organization’s free knowledge mission. Contact

Krupal Kasyap

Mr. Krupal Kasyap is the Program Manager for the IndicWiki project at IIIT Hyderabad, bringing a wealth of experience to his role. Over the course of more than 15 years, he has been deeply involved in the Wikipedia ecosystem, serving as a Wikipedia volunteer, Wiki Ambassador, Member of Wiki Sister Projects Taskforce, and a certified trainer in the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program. He holds a pivotal role in initiating Wikipedia outreach endeavors, organizing Wiki events, managing WikiClubs, and fostering relationships with community representatives, content creators, and institutions. His research interests encompass a wide spectrum, including language technologies, translation tools, and community development. Contact

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